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Mondo Military Updated on 2024-02-20

Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported on February 19 that Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmygal and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed about 50 cooperation agreements in Tokyo, and Japan plans to provide assistance to Ukraine in seven areas after the end of the war, including the restoration of infrastructure, the development of industry and agriculture, mine clearance and the development of information technology.

Shmygal said that Ukraine is studying Japan's modernization experience in order to show the world a "Ukrainian economic miracle." In addition, Japan will provide $12.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, of which Kyiv will receive $4.7 billion by the end of February. And in April last year, Japan provided $7.6 billion to Ukraine in a single move. According to the Prime Minister of Japan: This is a scale that is not ashamed compared to other countries.

At the same time, Fumio Kishida said that Japan's support for Ukraine remains unwavering.

Japan will also be Ukraine's largest donor of financial support in the first few months of 2024. Assistance is expected to reach about $2.2 billion in the first quarter. It is difficult to promote the new bill of US aid to Ukraine, and European countries have begun to worry that once the United States no longer protects Europe's own security, Japan will become another strong supporter of aid to Ukraine in addition to the United States and the European Union. In terms of the size of the funds, Japan is already the third largest donor to Ukraine after the United States and Germany, surpassing the United Kingdom.

Of course, Japan's aid is mainly economic and humanitarian, and Japan itself does not maintain a large conventional military production capacity like South Korea. Previously, Japan did amend the law to provide the United States with patriotic anti-aircraft missile curves to aid Ukraine, but in the same way, it encountered technical problems and canceled the supply of 155mm ammunition to the United Kingdom.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently said that the EU will approve the use of proceeds generated from the freezing of Russian assets to support Ukraine in the coming days. She pointed out that the EU has initiated relevant legal procedures to ensure that the proceeds of frozen Russian assets do not belong to Russia.

Russia has 300 billion euros of assets frozen in the EU, and the annual interest is a good income, of course, this is far from Ukraine's hope to confiscate Russian assets to compensate Ukraine, but even if the EU confiscates these assets, it will be used for Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, not for military aid.

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